ISBN10: 1854890883, ISBN13: 9781854890887, [publisher: Rivers Oram Press] Softcover 298 pages. Cover wornAnne Lister, heiress, scholar, traveler, and estate owner, is known to us through her diaries -- an unusu ally vivid record of an extraordinary life. She inherited Shibden Hall, Yorkshire, seduced a neighbouring heiress, consolidated th eir estates (effectively a dynastic lesbian marriage), and develo ped the coal deposits there, managing them with flair and energy. The extensive appraisal of Anne Lister's life and the themes dra wn from the diaries make Female Fortune required reading for anyo ne engaged in current feminist analysis.
[Wellington, New Zealand] [Publication Year: 1998]